{"id":324039,"date":"2021-08-14T06:35:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T03:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/running-away-from-a-nation-building-mess\/"},"modified":"2021-08-14T06:35:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T03:35:33","slug":"running-away-from-a-nation-building-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/running-away-from-a-nation-building-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"#Running away from a \u2018nation building\u2019 mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Running away from a \u2018nation building\u2019 mess<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Where America got Afghanistan wrong is \u201cnation-building.\u201d That\u2019s a myth. Nations don\u2019t build nations. Nations rebuild themselves. President Biden, predictably, learned the wrong lesson. The opposite of nation-building is not running away. It is being realistic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After World War II, Japan rebuilt Japan. West Germany rebuilt West Germany. Sure, America helped, but you can\u2019t help a people that aren\u2019t willing or able to help themselves. These countries cleared the rubble and got to it. They also had an advantage. They were not being invaded while they were trying to rebuild. Not so Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Who can argue with the decision to oust the Taliban, the bastards that hosted the evildoers responsible for 9\/11?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But after that we entered into a long period of trial and error \u2014 mostly error.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan could never be rebuilt like Germany or Japan as long as the Taliban could continually cross over from Pakistan and threaten a comeback. There were few good options. President George W. Bush wanted to surge and seal the border. He left office before trying. President Barack Obama came in and made a half-hearted effort so he wouldn\u2019t look weak. His heart wasn\u2019t in it. He gave the military half the time and half the troops they needed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Obama would have preferred to walk away like he did with other problems like Iraq, Syria and Libya. But with ISIS overrunning Iraq and Benghazi, he couldn\u2019t afford to just pull the rug and see what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened. He happily handed the mess off to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/carfano-nation-building-mess-717.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Taliban fighters stand on a vehicle along the roadside in Herat, Afghanistan's third biggest city, after government forces pulled out the day before following weeks of being under siege. \" class=\"wp-image-19128261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/carfano-nation-building-mess-717.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/carfano-nation-building-mess-717.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/carfano-nation-building-mess-717.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Taliban fighters occupy Herat, Afghanistan\u2019s third-largest city, after government forces fled on Aug. 13, 2021. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trump recognized nation-building in Afghanistan was nonsense. He also accepted the US had important interests. We didn\u2019t want the country to turn into a terrorist Disneyland again that might attack us. Nor did we want the troubles of Afghanistan to destabilize South Asia. Nor did we want to look like a loser to the Taliban. These would just create another set of serious problems.<\/p>\n<p>Trump scoped forces down to the minimum to deter the Taliban and protect US interests and started outcome-based negotiations with the Taliban, where our next steps would be based on them fulfilling their promises. Troop numbers were minimal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We should have kept it this way \u2014 a small peacekeeping contingent to back up \u00addiplomacy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/carfano-nation-building-mess-713.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Former President Donald Trump\" class=\"wp-image-19128243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/carfano-nation-building-mess-713.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/carfano-nation-building-mess-713.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/carfano-nation-building-mess-713.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Former President Donald Trump would have prevented the Taliban\u2019s takeover of Afghanistan and protected America\u2019s allies in the Middle East.<br \/>\n<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Biden evidently forgot the failures of foreign policy under Obama and im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely went back to the old playbook of walking away and seeing what happens. He probably suspected Afghanistan would collapse, as the military warned him. No doubt he thought the Taliban would wait until the US was gone. Of course, they didn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why would they pass up the opportunity to humiliate \u00adAmerica?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>James Jay Carafano directs the Heritage Foundation\u2019s research on national-security and foreign-relations issues.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Nations don\u2019t build nations. Nations rebuild themselves. President Biden, predictably, learned the wrong lesson. The opposite of nation-building is not running away. It is being realistic.\u00a0\u00a0 After World War II, Japan rebuilt Japan. 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